Death Comes to the Rectory

A Kurland St. Mary Mystery, Book 8

By: Catherine Lloyd

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Lucy and Robert's joy in christening their new daughter, surrounded by extended family and loved ones who have gathered in the village of Kurland St. Mary, is only enhanced when Robert's aunt Rose - now the second wife of Lucy's father, Ambrose - announces that she is with child. However, not everyone is happy about the news, in particular Rose's adult daughter, Henrietta, and her husband, who fear for their inheritance.

Following the christening, Rose's disagreeable son-in-law Basil Northam threatens to turn afternoon tea in the rectory into an unsightly brawl. The next morning, he is found in the rector's study, stabbed through the heart with an antique letter opener, clutching a note that appears to implicate the rector himself.

As the local justice of the peace, Robert has an obligation to remain unbiased in his investigation of the ghastly crime, even though his prime suspect is a man of the cloth and his wife's father. But Lucy is under no such obligation. As snow traps the members of the christening party in Kurland St. Mary, she vows to clear her father's name and bring the cold-blooded culprit to justice. Someone had better start saying their prayers....

©2021 Catherine Duggan (P)2021 Tantor

Great

What a tangled web that took us so many directions!! Brilliant and heart wrenching too

Sad because no more so far! Love this series and narrator

Excellent!!

Can’t wait for the next one! I love the characters and the setting! Why do reviews have to be so long?

Did not disappoint

It’s a great series. Excellent character development. Love mysteries that give nothing away along the solving.

Just okay for me

Not my favorite in the series. I’m not warming up to any of the characters, there’s a lot of dull talk and scene setting, and the narration blends together after a while. It’s also hard to hear the disgruntled people talking so much. It gets somewhat better after chapter six when some of the solving starts to happen.